Avi. No More Magic. While searching for his bicycle that disappeared on Halloween, a young boy and his two friends become involved in a magical adventure.

Avi. True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle. As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic
voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and
the crew rebellious.

Avi. Wolf Rider: A Tale of
Terror. After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming
to have committed murder, 15-year-old Andy finds his close relationship
with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe
him.

Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting.
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they
discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share
their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing
any older.

Bains, Rae. Harriet Tubman:
The Road to Freedom. The biography of a slave whose flight to
freedom was the first step in her becoming a "conductor" on
the Underground Railroad.

Bauer, Marion Dane. On My
Honor. When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming
in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel
is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents
the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and Ten. Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.

Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Author tells his story of the horrific road that led a 13-year-old boy to wield an AK-47, commit terrible acts of war, and ultimately reclaim his true self.

Blume, Judy. One in the Middle
Is the Green Kangaroo. Middle child Freddy Dissel gets the chance
to show everyone he's special, and, most of all, prove it to himself.

Blume, Judy. The Pain and
the Great One. A six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old
sister (The Great One) see each other as troublemakers and the best-loved
in the family.

Brown, Marc. Arthur's Lost
Puppy. Arthur and D. W. do not know what is wrong with Baby Kate
when they take her to the neighborhood fair, but Pal the puppy does.

Brown, Marc. Arthur's Nose.
Unhappy with his nose, Arthur visits the rhinologist to get a new one.

Brown, Marc. Arthur's Reading
Race. Arthur doesn't believe that his little sister can really
read, so he challenges her to prove it.

Bunting, Eve. Smoky Night.
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood,
a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others
to matter what their background or nationality.

Bunting, Eve. St. Patrick's
Day in the Morning. Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too
young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade.

Bunting, Eve. Sunflower House. A young
boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves
the seeds to make another house the next year.

Cameron, Ann. Julian's Glorious
Summer. When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old
Julian spends the summer avoiding her because of his fear of bikes.

Carrick, Carol. What Happened
to Patrick's Dinosaurs? Fascinated with dinosaurs, Patrick invents
an imaginary explanation of why they became extinct.

Clements, Andrew. The Report Card. Fifth-grader, Nora, has always hidden her genius because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are unimportant, things begin to get out of control.

Cole, Joanna. Magic School
Bus Inside the Human Body. A special field trip on the magic
school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to get a first-hand look at
the major parts of the body and how they work.

Cole, Joanna. Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane. Ms. Frizzle's class explores the water cycle and hurricanes from the inside.

Cole, Joanna. Magic School
Bus Lost in the Solar System. On a special field trip in the
magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits
each planet in the solar system.

Cole, Joanna. Magic School
Bus Lost in the Time of the Dinosaurs. Ms. Frizzle's class travels back to various ages of dinosaurs.

Collier, James. My Brother
Sam Is Dead. Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family
during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the
rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Collins, Mary. Airborne:
A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Examines the lives
of the Wright brothers and discusses their experiments and triumphs
in the field of flight.

Conford, Ellen. Me & the
Terrible Two. No one, Dorrie vows, can take the place of her
best friend who has moved to Australia, so when twin boys move into
the empty house next door, the war is on.

Conford, Pam. My Daniel.
Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother
tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones
on their Nebraska farm.

Cormier, Robert. Chocolate
War. A chocolate sale in a boy's private school creates power
struggles.

Creech, Sharon. Walk Two
Moons. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old
Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route.
Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose
mother left also.

Curtis, Christopher. The
Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963: a Novel. The ordinary interactions
and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family
living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go
to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Davidson, Margaret. I Have
a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. A biography of Martin
Luther King, Jr. who sought equality for minorities through nonviolent
means.

Ernst, Lisa Campbell. Little
Red Riding Hood: a Newfangled Prairie Tale. An updated version,
set on the prairie, of the familiar story about a little girl, her
grandmother, and a not-so-clever wolf.

Fleischman, Sid. 13th Floor.
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows
her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth century pirate
ship captained by a distant relative.

Gardiner, John Reynolds. Stone
Fox. Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's
farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

George, Jean Craighead. The
Case of the Missing Cutthroats. After Spinner Shafter catches
a cutthroat trout in the Snake River, she and her cousin Alligator
search the nearby mountains to determine where the endangered fish
came from and how it survived.

George, Jean Craighead. The
Firebug Connection. Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European
fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and
grow grossly large and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning
to determine the cause of their strange death.

George, Jean Craighead. Julie
of the Wolves. While running away from home and an unwanted marriage,
a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of
Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

George, Jean Craighead. The
Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo. Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five
homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida,
searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination
and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home
beautiful.

George, Jean Craighead. My
Side of the Mountain. A young boy relates his adventures during
the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including
his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends,
and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

George, Jean Craighead. Who
Really Killed Cock Robin? Eighth-grader Tony Isidoro follows
a trail of environmental clues to try to figure out what ecological
imbalances might have caused the death of the town's best known robin.

George, Kristine O'Connell. The
Great Frog Race and Other Poems. A collection of poems about
frogs and dragonflies, wind and rain, a visit to the tree farm, the
garden hose, and other familiar parts of indoor and outdoor life.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. The
Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room. Held back for a year in second grade,
Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really
interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Have
You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? With a memo book full of notes, junior
detective Abby Jones and her pal Potsie piece together confusing
clues and soon they are trying to unravel more than one mystery in
their urban neighborhood.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Secret
at the Polk Street School. The kids in Ms. Rooney's room hope
their play will win them the school banner for the class that does
the most for the school, but kid detective Dawn Bosco can't concentrate
on her role as Red Riding Hood after someone called "the Wolf" leaves
her a threatening note.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Snaggle
Doodles. Emily Arrow has two problems, trying to work in her
invention group with bossy Linda Lorca in charge and thinking of
a wedding present for Ms. Vincent, the student teacher.

Gilson, Jamie. Hello, My
Name is Scrambled Eggs. When his folks host a Vietnamese family
that has come to settle in their town, Harvey enjoys Americanizing
twelve-year-old Tuan.

Goble, Paul. Buffalo Woman.
A young hunter marries a female buffalo in the form of a beautiful
maiden, but when his people reject her he must pass several tests before
being allowed to join the buffalo nation.

Goble, Paul. The Girl who
Loved Wild Horses. Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers
to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

Goble, Paul. Her Seven Brothers.
Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers
become the Big Dipper.

Goble, Paul. Love Flute.
A gift to a shy young man from the birds and animals helps him to express
his love to a beautiful girl.

Goble, Paul. Star Boy.
Relates the Blackfoot Indian legend in which Star Boy gains the Sun's
forgiveness for his mother's disobedience and is allowed to return
to the Sky World.

Greene, Bette. Summer of
my German Soldier. Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war
is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old
Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Guarino, Deborah. Is Your
Mama a Llama? A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are
llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types
of animals.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among
the Hidden. In a future where the Population Police enforce the
law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his
twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces
him that the government is wrong.

Hahn, Mary Downing. The Doll
in the Garden: a Ghost Story. After Ashley and Kristi find an
antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that
they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through
a hole in the hedge.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Time for Andrew: a
Ghost Story. When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt
in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty
years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle
who is dying of diphtheria.

Hesse, Karen. Letters from
Rifka. In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles
her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when
she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate
to America.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the
Dust. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates
the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during
the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in
another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed
construction site.

Hurwitz, Johanna. Aldo Applesauce.
When he and his family move to the suburbs, Aldo has difficulty finding
new friends.

Hutchins, Pat. The Doorbell
Rang. Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who
have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

Hutchins, Pat. It's MY Birthday! Billy
is reluctant to share his birthday presents with the other little monsters,
but then something happens to make him change his mind.

Hutchins, Pat. Which Witch
Is Which? Although Ella and Emily look alike, their choices of
food, games and colors at a birthday party help the reader tell them
apart.

Kellogg Steven. Pecos Bill:
A Tall Tale. Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill; from his
childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.

Konigsburg, E.L.. The View
From Saturday. Four students, with their own individual stories,
develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher,
a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class
in the Academic Bowl competition.

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle
in Time. Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, with the help of Calvin
O'Keefe, set out in space to find their scientist father.

Lauber, Patricia. The Lost
Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart. Traces the life of the pilot
who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously
disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

Lewis, C.S. The
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Four children enter the kingdom
of Narnia through the back of an old wardrobe.

Lindbergh, Anne. Nick
of Time: a Novel. Thirteen-year-old Jericho, whose father runs
an unconventional school in their home, passes through an invisible
gateway into the year 2094 and discovers a future world of uniformity
and overpopulation, where his school has been made a national monument.

Lowry, Lois. The
Giver. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve,
Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in
his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society
in which he lives.

Lowry, Lois. Number
the Stars. In 1943, during the German occupation on Denmark,
ten-year-old Anne Marie learns how to be brave and courageous when
she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah,
Plain and Tall. When their father invites a mail-order bride
to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are
captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Martin, Bill. Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom. An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens
when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

Martin, Bill. Here
Are My Hands. Children indicate body parts, such as a boy pointing
to a bandaged knee, which is for "falling down."

Martin, Bill. Snowflake
Bentley. A biography of self-taught scientist who photographed
thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique
formations.

McCully, Emily. First
Snow. A timid mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first
snow of the winter.

McCully, Emily. School.
The littlest mouse decides to follow his siblings to find out what
school is all about.

Murphy, Jim. Across
America on an Emigrant Train. Robert Louis Stevenson's account
of trip across U. S. in 1879 also gives information about building
and operation of railroads in 19th century.

Naylor, Phyllis. Beetles
Lightly Toasted. Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest
stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his
know-it-all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources
and testing them on unaware friends and family.

Naylor, Phyllis. Shiloh.
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home,
Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a
mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat
his dogs.

Nixon, Joan Lowry. Family
Apart. When their mother can no longer support them, 6 siblings
are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with
farm families in Missouri in 1860.

Numeroff, Laura. If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Relating the cycle of requests a mouse
is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through
a young child's day.

Numeroff, Laura. If
You Take a Mouse to School. Follows a boy and his mouse through
a busy day at school.

O'Keefe, Susan. One
Hungry Monster. At bedtime a small boy tries to control ten insatiable
monsters demanding food and creating chaos throughout the house.

Olsen, Gretchen. Joyride.
Jeff McKenzie is spending the summer in a world far from the tennis
courts where he should be practicing his championship moves. A summer
joyride through a farmer's bean field changed all that. Now he must
spend the summer working with field hands at the farm to pay for the
damage- weighing flats, loading trucks, and picking strawberries.

Patent, Dorothy
Hinshaw. The Lewis and Clark Trail: Then and Now. Text and photos
contrast American West as it is now to 200 years ago.

Paterson, Katherine. Bridge
to Terabithia. The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia
expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently
meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia,
during a storm.

Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days
in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid
of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive
his parents' divorce.

Paulsen, Gary. Tracker.
Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his
family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe
who leads him and hating his role as hunter.

Podsen, India. Coaching
and Mentoring First Year & Student Teachers. For use by ED
320/325 classes.

Polacco, Patricia. The
Keeping Quilt. A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four
generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of
their enduring love and faith.

Rawls, Wilson. Where
the Red Fern Grows. A boy receives two coon dogs during his childhood
in the Ozarks.

Relf, Patricia. A
Dinosaur Named Sue: The Story of the Colossal Fossil (The World's
Most Complete T-Rex). She is massive. She is astounding. She is the
most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found. Her name is
SUE and she is, without a doubt, the fossil find of the century.

Robinson, Barbara. The
Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal,
smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community
Christmas pageant.

Rockwell, Thomas. How
to Eat Fried Worms. Two boys set out to prove that worms can
make a delicious meal.

Ruby, Lois. Steal
Away Home. Parallel stories 150 years apart are set in home of
Quaker family who ran station on Underground Railroad. Grades

Sachar, Louis. Holes.
A further evidence of his family's bad fortune that they attribute
to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real
friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Santrey, Laurence. Young
Frederick Douglas: Fight For Freedom. The story of the slave
who became a leader of the abolitionist movement.

Schories, Pat. Mouse
Around. A little mouse has a wonderful journey all around town
when he falls from his nest into a plumber's back pocket.

Schwartz, David. How
Much is a Million? Text and pictures try to make possible the
conceptualization of a million, billion, and a trillion.

Sebranek, Patrick. Write
Source: a Student Handbook. This is a handbook for students stressing
fundamental principles of writing. Includes sections on reading,
math, and more.

Sharmat, Marjorie. Nate
the Great and the Phony Clue. Nate, a boy detective, sets out
to learn who left a torn piece of paper with the letters VITA on
his doorstep. Grades 1-2.

Siebert, Diane. Heartland.
Evokes the land, animals, and people of the Middle West in poetic text
and illustrations.

Siebert, Diane. Mojave.
Evokes the land and animals of the Mohave Desert in poetic text and
illustrations.

Speare, Elizabeth. Sign
of the Beaver. Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home
in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until
the local Indians teach him their skills.

Spinelli, Jerry. Loser. Considered strange and a loser by classmates, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.

Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac
Magee. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes
legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe
his contemporaries.

Steele, William. The
Perilous Road. 14-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees
for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson
about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when
he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates,
only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.

Steptoe, John. Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters. Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered,
one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.

Sterne, Emma. Slave Ship. A fictional
account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship
Amistad and the subsequent Amistad Case argued by John Quincy
Adams before the United States Supreme Court.

Taylor, Mildred. Friendship/Gold
Cadillac. The Friendship: Cassie Logan tells the haunting story
of a neighbor in Mississippi, Mr. Tom Bee, who dares to call a white
storekeeper by his first name. The Gold Cadillac: Lois and her sister
Wilma are proud that the family will be driving in it all the way
from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural
South, there are no admiring glances for the wonderful car, only
suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel.

Taylor, Mildred. Roll
of Thunder, Hear my Cry. A black family living in the South during
the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination, which their
children don't understand.

Taylor, Theodore. The
Cay. When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed
by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white
boy, blinded by a blow to the head, and an old Negro are stranded
on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires
a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

Van Allsburg, Chris. Jumanji. Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargain for in a mysterious jungle adventure board game.

Van Allsburg, Chris. The Polar Express. A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Voigt, Cynthia. Dicey's
Song. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled
in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings
require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Waber, Bernard. Ira
Sleeps Over. A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending
the night at his friend's house but
worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.

Wadsworth, Olive. Over
in the Meadow. Rhymed verses about different animals living in
a meadow introduce the numbers one through 10.

Wahl, Jan. The
Field Mouse and the Dinosaur Named Sue. A field mouse finds himself
in the Field Museum when the roof of his former home is transported
there with the rest of the bones of a dinosaur named Sue.

Warren, Andrea. Surviving
Hitler. Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor,
Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos
from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Wick, Walter. A
Drop of Water: a Book of Science and Wonder. Describes the origins,
characteristics, and uses of water.

Williams, Linda. The
Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. A little old
lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head,
a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through
the dark woods trying to scare her.

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Castle
in the Attic. A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight,
introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal
quest.

Wollman-Bonilla,
Julie. Family Message Journals: Teaching Writing through Family
Involvement. Describes the fundamentals of English composition
and provides exercises in the studying and teaching of family/parental
involvement. ED 320/325.

Yolen, Jane. Sleeping
Ugly. When beautiful Princess Miserella, Plain Jane, and a fairy
fall under a sleeping spell, a prince undoes the spell in a surprising
way.

Yolen, Jane. Water
Music: Poems for Children. Original poems based on water and
its various forms.

Yolen, Jane Welcome
to the Sea of the Sand. Describes and discusses the natural history
of the Sonoran Desert.